Author Topic: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass! (Read 184341 times)

Kingault · « **Reply #810 on:** July 29, 2013, 02:30:31 AM »

Let's go with three. What's the worst that could happen?

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #811 on:** July 29, 2013, 02:48:23 AM »

Oh well, I tried Mosdorl. 3 it is.

Sagus · « **Reply #812 on:** July 29, 2013, 03:36:11 AM »

Send a full war party. The Rakstanti are taunting us, filling their storehouses with food while we starve. 3

Reddyne · « **Reply #813 on:** July 29, 2013, 01:04:40 PM »

Can't we just dress everyone in Elkenvali gear?

I wager the reprisal will be bad either way. Let's keep a positive reputation on at least one side. 3

Keegster2 · « **Reply #814 on:** July 30, 2013, 12:10:19 AM »

3. WE SHALL BE REMEMBERED AS THE MOST SUICIDAL CLAN!

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #815 on:** July 30, 2013, 01:36:39 AM »

Frankly guys, both minor mercenary work and raiding people who like you (but aren't full-on allies) are par for the course in Orlanthi culture. It doesn't piss people off unless you beat on them an unreasonable amount. Gotta think like Bronze Age barbarians here. Because in this game, we are.

Ship one guy off to form a more lasting trade route, follow up with some more food begging.

Success on the former count!

One of the giant animals called earthshakers galumphs onto your tula, intent on eating your crops. Jerernalda manages to herd it away from the barley, but now it's crashed into a stead.

1. Give it hay to eat.
2. Send warriors to fight it.
3. Send warriors to herd it away.
4. Use magic to drive it off.
5. Wait it out.

Our grain bins are empty. Any loss of crops would be disasterous. (2, 4)

The warriors won't be happy if they get hit by that tail. (1, 4, 5)

Our magic is strong; our spells will succeed against it. (4)

Every time it smashes a stead, we lose about ten cows worth of materials and lost work.

There creatures are sacred to Ernalda's vengeful sister, Maran Gor. (5)

We can easily get rid of it by feeding it, but then it will want to come back. (3)

There are many kinds of earthshakers. Some are intelligent, and cast spells. Others are terrible carnivores, and some eat only plants. They are sacred to Maran Gor, Ernalda's vengeful sister.

Kingault · « **Reply #816 on:** July 30, 2013, 01:45:27 AM »

We must use magic, for magic is magic, and magic is always the answer.
Also, it seems to be the most tactical choice.
Fighting or herding it would be too risky, feeding it would probably result in it coming back, and waiting it out would probably lead to worse results than just losing hay.

Von Stein · « **Reply #817 on:** July 30, 2013, 01:55:00 AM »

4

Use magic to tame it, put it in a ball, and summon it in mortal combat against enemy earthshakers!

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #818 on:** July 30, 2013, 02:06:50 AM »

Give it hay.

We are regarded as kings, we need to have herd animals worthy of being a king's steed.

Sagus · « **Reply #819 on:** July 30, 2013, 02:19:15 AM »

OHMIGOSHITSASTEGOSAURFEEDITFEEDITFEEEEEDIT :getdown:

1

O4rfish · « **Reply #820 on:** July 30, 2013, 02:33:39 AM »

Hay, we're dinobros right?

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #821 on:** July 30, 2013, 02:51:00 AM »

1 sounds cool, maybe we can get a new pet!

Iced Fairy · « **Reply #822 on:** July 30, 2013, 02:57:27 AM »

4 Get it out.

Sagus · « **Reply #823 on:** July 30, 2013, 03:19:31 AM »

Quote from: O4rfish on July 30, 2013, 02:33:39 AM

Hay, we're dinobros right?

We're dragonbros, but dinos have a relation to dragons so I guess being good to them would please our ancestors (I did some reading on the game, and it doesn't matter that the dragons ate up our people in the past [something that they actually had good reasons to do, since the humans were misusing the dragon's magic]; since we chose to be dragronbros back then, we are expected to be nice to them now too. If we want to respect our clan's traditions to get that extra magic, anyway).

O4rfish · « **Reply #824 on:** July 30, 2013, 05:23:11 AM »

My point is we're horsebros, dragonbros, duckbros, and so logically we would also be dinobros.

Reddyne · « **Reply #825 on:** July 30, 2013, 11:38:45 AM »

Quote from: O4rfish on July 30, 2013, 05:23:11 AM

My point is we're horsebros, dragonbros, duckbros, and so logically we would also be dinobros.

Clearly this is a great opportunity to gain a trusty steed. On a stegosaurus. Not uncomfortable in the least, and does wonders for lumbar support.

Quote from: Harukarashi Barami on July 30, 2013, 01:36:39 AM

Frankly guys, both minor mercenary work and raiding people who like you (but aren't full-on allies) are par for the course in Orlanthi culture. It doesn't piss people off unless you beat on them an unreasonable amount. Gotta think like Bronze Age barbarians here. Because in this game, we are.

This makes so little sense that it makes perfect sense.

Sagus · « **Reply #826 on:** July 30, 2013, 03:47:20 PM »

Quote from: O4rfish on July 30, 2013, 05:23:11 AM

My point is we're horsebros, dragonbros, duckbros, and so logically we would also be dinobros.

Makes sense, makes sense

Keegster2 · « **Reply #827 on:** July 30, 2013, 07:40:10 PM »

1. Become friends!

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #828 on:** July 30, 2013, 11:56:45 PM »

And by a very slim margin...

Well at least it didn't eat any of our real food.

In too-boring-to-cap news, our harvest blew, no surprise.

Yeah because I totally expect to get that much food. I just go for custom (and get it) and run.

I switch the Issaries shrine from Silvertongue to Trading temporarily (in prep for trying to go trade for some food during Storm) and the Chalana arroy shrine back to Curing since we now have more sick than injured.

... and then seek some more Heroquests to run, successfully!

While we're stuck on our tula anyway seems like a good time to throw up the cheapest fortification we've got unbuilt yet.

The priests and priestesses are outraged! Someone has snuck into the temple of Elmal and left a crude, muddy effigy right in the middle of it! The people are concerned that this is a curse, or some other form of bad magic.

1. Convince people it is wise to leave the effigy right where it is.
2. Dedicate statue to Eurmal and move it to its own sacred hut.
3. Destroy it and conduct a ritual to purify the temple.
4. Destroy it and have the chief publicly beat Mosdorl to show the clan's displeasure.
5. Sneak it into another clan's best temple.

Since this involves magic, not beer or cattle, I am inclined to let Mosdorl have his way here. (1, 2)

Send Mosdorl to sneak it into the Elkenval temple. (5)

Eurmal will be happiest if we use the effigy as part of a trick against another clan. (5)

The first thing you do when you find a trickster is look for rope to hang him with. (3)

If another clan catches us putting this thing in their temple, they will have good cause to hate us. (anything but 5)

The people are disturbed by this strange thing, and will be pleased to see Mosdorl punished. (4)

There's no big mystery here. I put the effigy there, in tribute to Eurmal the Trickster God. It will help us to overcome the skepticism of others. (1)

Kingault · « **Reply #829 on:** July 30, 2013, 11:59:51 PM »

Maybe if we used magic, we might have somehow controlled the thing... Maybe. Oh well.

As much as I would like for four to happen, I think that it would be best to go with two.
Maybe both gods will like us this way?

Janitor Morgan · « **Reply #830 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:00:25 AM »

Let's go with 2 here; Iskalli seems to be cool with it and I don't think punishing Mosdorl will really do anything. :V

Von Stein · « **Reply #831 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:02:50 AM »

1

I trust Mosdorl with the clan's lives. All of them. He will guide us right.

Not saying what I think "right" *is* though.

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #832 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:04:43 AM »

gg Mosdorl. That said, I like 5 to the Elkenvali =D

Or the Zethnorings!

Iced Fairy · « **Reply #833 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:07:20 AM »

2 Boss man's right, but it belongs in it's own shrine. Not someone else's.

Shadoweh · « **Reply #834 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:19:40 AM »

If we pick 2 does Eurmal get a shrine in your tula?

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #835 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:28:48 AM »

Quote from: Shadoweh on July 31, 2013, 12:19:40 AM

If we pick 2 does Eurmal get a shrine in your tula?

Not one we can actually do anything with - Eurmal doesn't have any enshrinable buffs, just on-use blessings. 1 and 2 both do do things though.

Stuffman · « **Reply #836 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:34:07 AM »

5. This can only be hilarious, and it's not like they can do anything to us besides water our lawn.

Shadoweh · « **Reply #837 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:35:21 AM »

That still sounded like a yes to me! 2 it is!

Sagus · « **Reply #838 on:** July 31, 2013, 01:10:54 AM »

Quote from: Harukarashi Barami on July 30, 2013, 11:56:45 PM

Send Mosdorl to sneak it into the Elkenval temple. (5)

I just-
Orlgard you fox

I agree with him. 5

O4rfish · « **Reply #839 on:** July 31, 2013, 02:25:06 AM »

I agree with Jonrik.

The LARP we just learned does what? Food?